As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. ... During her career, Aphra wrote and staged approximately nineteen plays [ CITATION Wil l 1033 ]. ... The play speaks out against the unequal treatment of women during the Restoration. ... The play opens with three female characters whose stories dominate the play throughout, each striving to break from their prescribed outcomes. ... While Behn was writing this play, actresses were beginning to a...

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Even a female who wrote to herself without intension to publish, was looked down upon by the society made up of male writers. ... Throughout history male writers have played a large part in prolonging progress towards men and women being considered equal. In male literature, numerous ways to keep unequal roles were to stereotype women and make it apparent that men and women play very different roles in life. On page 632, Rich writes, "And there were all those poems about women, written by men: it seemed to be a given that men wrote poems and women frequently inhabited them. ... Rich strong...

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Humor has bee incorporated into work, play and education. ... Humor has played a huge role in the lives of southerners, but until recently the southern women were unable, or not allowed, to show their own version of humor to the world. ... By allowing people to laugh at the men they wrote about, they allowed people to observe the injustices women lived and to break free of what women were permitted to say and not to say in public. Ann Stephens, an author in the 1830s, wrote about the injustice of some women's lives by exaggerating the differences in them. ... When she wrote about ...

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In 1916, Susan Glaspell wrote the one-act play Trifles. was originally written by Susan Glaspell as a play entitled Trifles. She wrote the play in 1916, and a year later she rewrote it as a short story. ... This story takes us back in time to a place in our history where men and women played very different roles in their lives. ...

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One of the main topics of interest in the field of Shakespearian studies is that which considers the various roles that women play in the Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies. Literary and historical scholars agree that women did not enjoy political, economic, or social parity with men during Shakespeare's time, and this historical reality is important to keep in mind when analyzing the variety of female characters in the plays of Shakespeare. ... The contemporary reader can't help but be aware of them and in many cases, to view many of the characters present in several plays by...

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"My poor Eva is dead," he wrote to Gertrude Stein. " It was a great sorrow she was always so good to me." ... She never looked cross or humiliated; she always made you feel that they were acting in a play. ... So if you decided to live with him, you needed unusual strength an unusual maturity to find your part in his play and improvise the text"(Huffington 60). ... You pretend that you are unusual , then let's really lead an unusual life, instead of playing hide-and-seek with the truth." ... Rebecca West wrote, " soft against her smooth flesh, its nervous energy crackling against her ser...

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Art critic, and writer John Ruskin wrote the article Sesame and Lilies, it is a primary source published in 1865 to use as a lecture, which was given in Manchester on December 6, 1864. ... Novelist Dinah Mulock wrote of Victorian girls when they have completed their education, they "come home, and stay home" she adds that they have "literally nothing to do", (A Woman's Thoughts About Women, 1888). ... Henry Mayhew wrote, " young girls were mostly compelled to resort to prostitution to eke out their subsistence", (Henry Mayhew, "Prostitution among Needlewomen", 1849). ... The representat...

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The Heroics of Women Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is a play about a young wife and her husband. ... Ibsen wrote the characters of Helmer and Nora for a very particular reason. ... While he does hide his own views in the play itself, he does not force them upon the audience. ... In fact, Ibsen often wrote about an individual fighting against! ... Nora's faults that are present throughout the play are evidence of her childlike nature. ...

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She wrote realism, mainly about women in the Midwest, in rural settings. Her play, Trifles, is an example. ... This one-act play was very interesting. ... Peters could be played by someone like Frances Conroy, the actress who plays the mother on HBO's "Six Feet Under." ... This play is full of dramatic irony. ...

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Playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Doll's House" in 1879 as a way to creatively, yet powerfully, make a critique of 19th century society. At the time it was written, the play was considered controversial due to its subject matter; the advocation of women's rights. The play opens with Nora in her house around Christmas time. ... During the play A Doll's House, Nora demonstrates female independence because of her desire for an education. ... He called me his doll child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. ...

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Her extreme desperation and aggravation is played out in a monologue she delivers during the play: When I gave birth I remember so clearlyshe came out and clambered right onto my breast and tried to eat me, she was so hungry, so hungry it terrified me – her hunger. ... Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to the biological knowledge we've acquired about the subje...

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She likes to play the role of a matchmaker, and at one point she thinks that William and Lily should marry each other, and she thinks that this would be an "admirable idea" (Woolf, 2000, p. 42). ... He wrote to his mother; otherwise he did not suppose he wrote one letter a month, said Mr. ...

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A scorned wife spoke this in one of Sophocles" lost plays. ... Herodotus wrote the first story about a woman, Rhodopis, who was credited with funding the building of a pyramid, and also made expensive donations to Delphi. ... Plato wrote a well known dialogue called Menexenus, in which he claimed that the funeral oration Pericles gave was actually written by Aspasia: yet another suspicion of he...

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For example, for the collegiate basketball tournament, tickets to the men's games are often played in venues such as Madison Square Garden and are still sold out. ... The news media often separates female athletes into categories based on whether they play masculine or feminine sports. Although more girls and women play traditionally "male" sports it is the feminine sports that actually receive more recognition from the media. ... For example, young girls are supposed to play with dolls and play house where they take on maternal roles. ... Wendy Olson, a writer for the Yale Law ...

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Mona Lisa Smile In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, directed by Mike Newell in 2003, three eligible women have choices and what they chose grounds them to the roles they play in society and what inevitable leads them to feminism because of the choices they made. ... Katherine Watson played by Julia Roberts is an art history teacher from California. ... As one student wrote in the school newsletter, "Katherine did not come to Wellesley to fit in she came to Wellesley to make a difference." ... Joan Brandwyn played by Julia Stiles was one of the smartest students in the movie. ... Betty W...

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However, when Yeats wrote this poem, he was no longer the 24-year-old young man who fell for the innocent "apple-blossom" but rational enough to be aware of the potential crisis that she might cause. ... Yeats's play "Cathleen ni Houlihan" is another representative example that shows how a woman overrules and manipulates her men to achieve what she wants. In the play, "Gonne portrays the archetype of woman embodying nationalist Ireland [while] Yeats [provides] a lasting impression of Gonne as rallying her men to fight for her stolen green fields" (Steele, 7)....

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As always has been the stereo type girls have always seemed to want to communicate just for the sake of talking, and boys" just want to play and rough house. ... Karen Gallas conducted the experiment and wrote a book called Sometimes I Can Be Anything, Power, Gender, and Identity in a Primary Setting. ... She clearly reflects that though boys and girls are certainly different in many ways (biologically, mentally, and personality wise) at hand are many factors from both sexes that can be used together to level out the playing field. Furthermore teachers need to level the playing field by doing ...

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"They expected her alone to keep the traditional ways, which her brothers, now among the barbarians, could fumble without detection .The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action." ... Kingston also wrote "White Tigers," which she uses her storytelling as a way to live out her possibilities within her storytelling. ... She is not allowed to speak up for herself when confronted with an unwanted predicament because of the roles that woman must play in society. ... Yet, what Kingston reveals is how this story plays into the hands ...

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These three women were honest about their music, they wrote their own thoughts in the lyrics and they would not sell out for anything. ... Through her inspiration Joplin has influenced many women who took her music and tried to play the way that Joplin made them feel. ... Greats such as Louis Armstrong played with her because she was fun to play with. ...

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"In vain did I solicit to share, in those instructions, which were so liberally allowed to him," she wrote in a letter to a friend (Harris 176). ... Murray's two plays, The Traveler Returned and Virtue Triumphant were both works that were first published in her collections of work titled The Gleaner. It was with these two works she was able to create plays that exercised her intellectual freedom. ...

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Jack Nicholson plays a rich man in his sixties, Harry Sanborn, who only dates women under thirty. ... The approval factor comes into play with me every morning. ... That is where looking up to the standards of society or anyone comes into play, the dependency on others to feel good about ourselves. Gloria Steinem wrote an article "Lovely To Look Upon -- Or Else.... Allison Stewart wrote an article "Drake: such a Sad, Great Life" for The Washington Post, she argues "his greatest gift may be making you care about Drake. ...

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Because she did not conform to the role society thought she should play, she introduced the idea that women had a say in things and that women were smart enough and able to think for themselves. ... At the convention in Seneca Falls the men and women of the movement wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. ...

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"Trifles," a one-act play by Susan Glaspell, is a simple story of little things. ... As stated above, women had a place, a role they were supposed to play. ... The County Attorney wrote them off saying "Oh, I guess they're not very dangerous things the ladies have picked out" (Ronson 224). ...

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In order to enforce a safeguard against this threat is by manipulating women into believing a consistently reinforced idea: "Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing and play/ Are the accomplishments we should desire;/ To write, or read, or think, or to enquire/ Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time;/ And interrupt the conquests of our prime; - (14-8). ... The poet asserts, however, that according to the Holy Bible, this was not the intention for women: Winchelsea draws upon Deborah, a biblical figure, who fought with her people in battle and then wrote her own celebration song. ...

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These norms of society and previous experiences with women surely played a large role in Dmitri's attitude towards women in the beginning of "The Lady with the Dog-. ... Chekhov wrote of the undesirable past with women Gurov had and it is no wonder that this experience has made him think about women in a totally different way. ...

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